Ireland's Vanishing Triangle: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|1980s-1990s disappearances of women}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

'''Ireland's Vanishing Triangle'''<ref name="abcnews">{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2059587&page=1|title=Ireland's 'Vanishing Triangle'|author=ABC News|work=ABC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishcentral.com/news/FBI-identify-Irish-rapist-as-a-serial-killer--98728694.html#axzz2Bp8UE8A5|title=FBI identify Irish rapist as a serial killer|author=PATRICK COOPER|date=19 July 2010|work=IrishCentral.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/parenting/never-forgotten-1566280.html|title=Never forgotten|work=Independent.ie}}</ref> is a term commonly used in the Irish media when referring to a number of high-profile disappearances of Irish women from the late-1980s to the late-1990s. Several other women were also murdered within the triangle and their cases remain unsolved as well.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fresh appeals over three deaths|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2005/1109/69529-bodies/|publisher=RTE}}</ref> All of the cases appeared to share some common characteristics. The women's ages range from their late-teens to late-30s, they disappeared inexplicably and suddenly, and no substantial clues or evidence of their fate has ever been found despite large scale searches and campaigns by the [[Garda Síochána|Gardaí]] to find them. Gardaí believe their remains are likely to be buried in remote fields, [[bogs]] and [[forests]]. The triangle is in the eastern part of the island, roughly the boundaries of [[Leinster]], in an 80-mile area outside [[Dublin]].<ref name="abcnews" />